California Dreaming(1979)

T.T. (Dennis Christopher) leaves his home in Chicago and heads to California to experience the magical summers of the West Coast. He plans to get to know the culture of surfing and make friends with the locals in this area, but all his efforts are fruitless. Fortunately, T.T. He meets a bar owner named Duke (Seymour Castle). Duke mentors her and teaches her how not to feel out of place in California. T.T. As he spends more time on the beach, he realizes that this life is not as ideal as he imagined...